Job 16:12

At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

In Context

11GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.

13His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall:

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Cross References

Job 1:2And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

Job 4:10[Notwithstanding] the roaring of the lion, and the noise of the howling lion, yet, the teeth of the fierce lions, are broken:

Job 7:12Am, I, a sea, or a sea-monster,—That thou shouldst set over me a watch?

Job 9:17For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;

Job 23:16Yea, GOD, hath made timid my heart, and, the Almighty, hath put me in terror.

Job 29:18Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:

Matthew Henry on Job 16:7-17

Grievances of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the… Read the whole commentary →

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